An edited video shared on social media shows a NASA astronaut dropping a plastic globe, which appeared to fall to the ground. But it’s not evidence of a space conspiracy theory; the full video shows the globe floating back up seconds later.
That’s where the clip ends; the Instagram video cuts to a laughing man saying,"Got eeem." The narrator then returned and said the ball drop proves the astronauts are in a TV studio, not a weightless environment.
But the video is misleading. It shows Hopkins’ arm move downward as he fumbled the globe, pushing the globe in that direction.— available on NASA’s YouTube page — shows what really happened. Shortly after the globe drops from view, it resurfaces, floating up on the frame’s right side at the 18:53 mark of the video below.
In the full video, the globe first appeared when Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi grabbed it from an area behind him. You can see the globe floating in the air while another astronaut answers a question. The globe moved down, up and in place, depending on the hand motions of the astronauts who touched it.
Several times in the video, you can see the microphone floating in space as the astronauts pass it to one another. An Instagram video claimed that a plastic globe dropped by an astronaut shows that the video of the International Space Station was filmed in a TV studio. But the video showed only part of the story. The full video showed the globe floating up into the frame a few seconds later. It also showed the globe and microphones floating at separate points.
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